Re: [PATCH 00/10] KVM/X86: Handle guest memory that does not have a struct page

[Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>]

No complaints here!

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Raslan, KarimAllah <karahmed@amazon.de> wrote:
> Jim/Paolo/Radim,
>
> Any complains about the current API? (introduced in 4/10)
>
> I have more patches on top and I would like to ensure that this is
> agreed upon at least before sending more revisions/patches.
>
> Also 1, 2, and 3 should be a bit straight forward and does not use
> this API.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 18:47 +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
>> For the most part, KVM can handle guest memory that does not have a struct
>> page (i.e. not directly managed by the kernel). However, There are a few places
>> in the code, specially in the nested code, that does not support that.
>>
>> Patch 1, 2, and 3 avoid the mapping and unmapping all together and just
>> directly use kvm_guest_read and kvm_guest_write.
>>
>> Patch 4 introduces a new guest mapping interface that encapsulate all the
>> bioler plate code that is needed to map and unmap guest memory. It also
>> supports guest memory without "struct page".
>>
>> Patch 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 switch most of the offending code in VMX and hyperv
>> to use the new guest mapping API.
>>
>> This patch series is the first set of fixes. Handling SVM and APIC-access page
>> will be handled in a different patch series.
>>
>> KarimAllah Ahmed (10):
>>   X86/nVMX: handle_vmon: Read 4 bytes from guest memory instead of
>>     map->read->unmap sequence
>>   X86/nVMX: handle_vmptrld: Copy the VMCS12 directly from guest memory
>>     instead of map->copy->unmap sequence.
>>   X86/nVMX: Update the PML table without mapping and unmapping the page
>>   KVM: Introduce a new guest mapping API
>>   KVM/nVMX: Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the L1 MSR bitmap
>>   KVM/nVMX: Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the virtual APIC page
>>   KVM/nVMX: Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt
>>     descriptor table
>>   KVM/X86: Use kvm_vcpu_map in emulator_cmpxchg_emulated
>>   KVM/X86: hyperv: Use kvm_vcpu_map in synic_clear_sint_msg_pending
>>   KVM/X86: hyperv: Use kvm_vcpu_map in synic_deliver_msg
>>
>>  arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c    |  28 ++++-----
>>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c       | 144 +++++++++++++++--------------------------------
>>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c       |  13 ++---
>>  include/linux/kvm_host.h |  15 +++++
>>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c      |  50 ++++++++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>>
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